Cross Works opens
Saturday April 15, DordtYart's doors opened for the first part of the new season: Cross Works. The sun shined, the energy sparked in the hall and the artists spoke excitedly about their work. We are pleased to see the joy of the art, the smile around the eyes, the wonder and the pleasure that we felt in the hall last year again!
Rudi Fuchs opened the exhibition and spoke inspiring words about the warmth that art creates in life and brought an ode to the eye. Watch, look and see in the first place. With this mission, the many guests visited the artists and their works.
From now on you can come and see yourself. The hall is open to the public and the development of the works can almost daily be seen.
WORKING ARTISTS
The opening was a nice kick-off for the artists to set up the workplaces. From now on, every Thursday and Friday, and often a few days in the weekends, artists are working in the hall. Beginning with Stan Wannet (with fellow artists Chen Rongxin and Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola), David Jablonowski (with fellow artist Sarah Pichlkostner), Pieke Bergmans (with Wendeline Thole) and Maurice Bogaert (with fellow artist Sofie Doeland). The first ideas and conversations arise and the first materials are prepared for the new installations. Together with the artists we plan special days at the weekend in which they tell about their work and their developments. There will be conversations between the artists and the public. Soon we will announce the exact dates.
PUCLICITY
Lucette ter Borg of the newspaper NRC visited Cross Works during the opening. The NRC published a very nice piece about DordtYart, cause: ‘for one of the most beautiful spots in Dordrecht, you have to leave the old, charming downtown and get to the edge of the city, get to the east’. Read the article here (Dutch only).
Also during the opening there was a film crew of RTV Dordrecht. They shot beautiful images of the works in the hall. They captured the sparkling energy and interviewed Lyda Vollebregt and Rudi Fuchs. Want to see these images? Click here (Dutch only).
Hans Op de Beeck/ Christiaan Bastiaans
Videoart on the second floor: Pieter and Marieke Sanders Collection
On the topfloor, in the installation of Krijn de Koning, you’ll find a few artworks from the Pieter en Marieke Sanders collection this season. For over forty years, Pieter and Marieke Sanders avidly collected the work of relatively young, as well as more renowned artists from the Netherlands and overseas. Their collection includes paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations, photography, videos, and artists’ books. The emphasis lies on innovative and conceptual work. In recent years, they have been following in particular new developments in the field of new media, video art and post-internet art. The videoworks are from artists Maria Barnas, Christiaan Bastiaans, Hans Op de Beeck, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Tanja Ritterbex en Lydia Woort.
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